CHAPTER 2And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of
Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never
break my covenant with you.^2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye
shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?^3 Wherefore
I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and
their gods shall be a snare unto you.^4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these
words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.^5 And they
called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.
(^6) And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his
inheritance to possess the land.^7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the
days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did
for Israel.^8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten
years old.^9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of
Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.^10 And also all that generation were gathered unto
their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the
works which he had done for Israel.
(^11) And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: (^12) And they
forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed
other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them,
and provoked the LORD to anger.^13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
(^14) And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of
spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that
they could not any longer stand before their enemies.^15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of
the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them:
and they were greatly distressed.
(^16) Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that
spoiled them.^17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after
other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers
walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.^18 And when the LORD
raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of
their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason
of them that oppressed them and vexed them.^19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead,
that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to
serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their
stubborn way.